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Sunday, May 6, 2012

Warding for Magical Protection

One of the first protective
lessons I learned was a very simple one that has stayed with me for many years.
It was to call your Guide and Guardian, otherwise known as the Ward. Now this
can become a very involved topic where I could go off on a tangent and start
comparing it with the Fetch beast and all sorts of things, but I will refrain
as I have found the entity that comes during this ritual is not the same as my
Fetch Beast.

The ritual I did was simple,
although I don’t remember all of the steps as it was a very long time ago, but
it has the same outcome as one which is mentioned in Druid Magic by Maya Magee
Sutton Ph.D and Nicholas R. Mann. Very good book by the way. It is simple and
straight forward but discusses the aspects of Druidry and Celtic Spirituality
in a very solid manner.

The ritual goes as such, or as I
remember it and present it to people who have great success with it.

·Sit quietly facing the East and
centre yourself. You can perform the Active Meditation to get you into the
proper state of mind and being.

·When ready, imagine a white
pillar in the south-east, then a black pillar in the south-west, another white
pillar in the north-west and finally a black pillar in the north-east.

·Imagine a black and white
checkered floor extending between the pillars with you in the centre.

·Build up that visualization and
then put up a wall of energy between all the pillars so that you are basically
inside a room with a checkered floor, four pillars at the corners and energy
forming the four walls. I usually like to imagine this kind of energy as being
like a force-field from a sci-fi movie, so I also hear the whaaa as it goes up
and then buzzes. I find that sci-fi imagery helps a great deal in magic, so
don’t laugh.

·Then when you are ready, all
you do is ask your Ward to come to you as you would like to meet it.

·Wait a while and eventually it
will come.

If it appears that the Ward
doesn’t arrive, then just stop the ritual and try it another time. The Ward is
always with you, but it is usually out of sight because we seldom consider it
to be a part of our lives. The fact that the Ward didn’t come to meet you may
just be because you were not in the correct state or frame of mind, but it is
there.

Now the manner in which this Ward
can present itself is usually of a nature that you really wouldn’t expect, so
keep your mind open to any possibility. You can also do this for other people
or locations such as your house. Just imagine them in the centre of the room
you create around them and ask their Ward to come. I did this for my daughter
some years back when she was still a baby and was rather ill with flu. When I
called the Ward I saw ivy growing all around her, covering the room I had
created. At the time I didn’t know about the magical properties of ivy, so I
went looking and much to my surprise, found that it is a protective plant. If
it is a building you need to protect, just build the pillars and area around
the building itself. There are no limitations.